Malta – Court rejects Grech Mintoff’s challenge to investigate pro-choice activists

By Jurgen Balzan
July 12, 2024

Court has dismissed Ivan Grech Mintoff’s attempt to initiate criminal proceedings against pro-choice activists and organisations in Malta. The decision, delivered by Magistrate Donatella Frendo Dimech, found no prima facie cause for complaint against the named individuals and groups.

Grech Mintoff had filed a police complaint in October 2022, urging an investigation into several pro-choice activists, including Professor Isabelle Stabile, Dr. Alexander Clayman of Doctors for Choice, Dr. Lara Dimitrijevic of the Women’s Rights Foundation, and Francesca Fenech Conti of the Women for Women Foundation.

Continued: https://newsbook.com.mt/en/court-rejects-grech-mintoffs-challenge-to-investigate-pro-choice-activists/

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Abortion debate goes mainstream in Malta

Abortion debate goes mainstream in Malta
Opposition conservatives have labeled the European election a ‘referendum on abortion.’

By Jillian Deutsch
5/22/19

MSIDA, Malta — The controversial debate on Malta's stringent abortion laws has shifted from Facebook forums to the highest levels of politics just in time for the European election.

In the weeks leading up to Saturday’s ballot, the opposition Nationalist Party took out billboard adverts across the island championing the party’s anti-abortion message. Its leader Adrian Delia called the European election a “referendum on abortion” — accusing the ruling Labour Party of secretly supporting greater abortion rights.

Continued: https://www.politico.eu/article/maltese-activists-labor-for-an-abortion-debate/

Malta – Womens’ Rights Activists Break The Mould And Urge Malta To Legalise Abortion

Womens' Rights Activists Break The Mould And Urge Malta To Legalise Abortion
The Women’s Rights Foundation want access to safe and legal abortion

Johnathan Cilia
March 11, 2018

The Women's Rights Foundation has called for access to safe and legal abortion in a press conference in front of Parliament in Valletta. Calling abortion a human right, they demanded a national policy that would give this right to Maltese woman.

They said that abortion should at least be given in the following circumstances: "To save a woman’s life, to preserve a woman’s physical and mental health, in cases of rape and incest and in cases of fatal foetus impairment.”

Continued: https://lovinmalta.com/news/local/womens-rights-activists-break-the-mould-and-urge-malta-to-legalise-abortion